Cape Carteret Turkey Trot

Cape Carteret Turkey Trot in Cape Carteret, North Carolina, offers a 5k Holiday Costume Fun Run and a 1 Mile Holiday Costume Fun Run. The event emphasizes a fun, family, and community atmosphere rather than timing, and is promoted as Eastern North Carolina’s only family holiday Thanksgiving Day fun run. The flat, fast courses run through Star Hill and the brand-new Cape Carteret Trail, with the 5k route in Star Hill and a new 1-mile loop along the trail.

Special features include flock registrations with a best-dressed flock contest, shirts for the first 200 registrants, and pumpkin-pie prizes for top finishers. Proceeds benefit Easterseals PORT Health. Visit the organization's website for the most recent information.